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Travis — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:17:48 +0000

Plenty of goodies have passed the Creattica desk in the last few months, and when our inbox fills up we like to share what we’ve found. So here are a few freebies that caught our eye…

10 Free Icon Sets for Theme Design

BlogOhBlog is giving away some great icon sets to use in WordPress theme design and web development work.

15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts

A free list wouldn’t be complete without a whole bunch of free fonts.

17 Remarkably Professional Looking Free Fonts

If you haven’t had enough fonts yet, head over to Web Design Lendger to pick up some beautiful professional style fonts.

20 Free Original Hi-Res Ink Stained Paper Textures

If you’re looking to add that watercolor look to your web site, DesignShard can get you started with these free textures.

21 Truly Impressive And Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures

More free textures from SmashingApps.

50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates

Noupe drops the big list of free templates and well written step-by-step tutorials showing you how to create your own.

66 High Resolution Nature Desktop Backgrounds

An awesome selection of high-resolution backgrounds to spice up your desktop.

110 Ultimate Round-Up of Free Photoshop PSD Files and Resources

InstantShift rounds up the most beautiful and ready to use free Photoshop PSD files and resources which help you to enhance your design work.

500+ Watercolor Brushes for Photoshop

More watercolor love with this selection of great watercolor brushes from DesignM.ag.

Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs

Smashing Mag can’t get enough of those free fonts!

Old Vintage Paper Tag

As part of their Friday Freebie giveaways, Design Shard is offering this vintage tag image for download.

Modern E-commerce web-shop theme

Modern E-commerce web-shop themes

Aplos Web is giving away three e-commerce web themes in PSD format.

PhotoXpress

PhotoXpress is great site for finding some open source stock images.

10 High-Quality Free Tree Bark Textures

Six Revisions offers 10 high-resolution and large-scale tree bark texture stock images.

35+ Fresh Floral & Swirl Photoshop Brushes

Dezign Musings serves up some fresh floral and swirl brushes that great for those swirly design project.

IQ Font

A font designed by Toyota?

Tabbed Social Media Icon Set 50+ Icons

A huge collection of icons including over 50 simple but elegant icons which are perfect for minimalistic websites.

Typefaces, Get Your Free Typefaces Here!!!

Niki — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:25:42 +0000

The creation of a typeface is not an easy feat to accomplish. It’s for this reason that I’m grateful for all the talented designers out there who give their creations away in hopes that we will use them and be inspired. Thanks to all the designers who worked hard on the typefaces in this roundup! Enjoy!

Birra Stout

A lovely chunk slab serif from Darden Studio.

Ripe

A Geometric Postmodern slab seriffed face. The serifs feature simplistic rounded terminals and its stroke is uniform.

Metro

A futuristic looking typeface by Alexey Maslov (maslov.tv)

Tiza

Tiza is a font developed as a means of learning Font design software. It is inspired on the lovely slab-serif Giza . It has been recently used on the website for the Teen Choice Awards 2008… “like,OMG!”

Chunk

Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use.

Flamina

Flaminia is a 2008 opensource project started as a Master Degree Thesis by Andrea Bergamini, an Italian graphic designer annoyed by the chaotic and poorly designed road signage system in his country.

Junction

Inspired by my favorite humanist sans serif typefaces, such as Meta, Myriad, and Scala, Junction is where the best qualities of serif and sans serif typefaces come together. It has the hand drawn and human qualities of a serif, and still retains the clarity and efficiencies of a sans serif typeface. It combines the best of both worlds.

Sniglet

A rounded display face that’s great for headlines. It includes an almost full MacRoman/WinANSI character set.

Quicksand

A nice rounded sans serif

Chocobot

An interesting experiment in display type. This typeface almost hurts my eyes, and yet its intriguing.

Kunchey

Kunchey is elegant and modern at the same time; geometric, but with a subtle calligraphic twist.

Elspeth

Elspeth is a slab serif with a contemporary touch.

Freaktur

Freaktur is an amazing and detailed gothic font made with fontstruct.

Sketchy

Another sketchy/hand done font with a twist: this was made with fontstruct. Not sure how the creator got all the detail in there!

Foldstruct

Foldstruct is a 3d typeface based on Inbetween

Typography Articles, Inspiration & News June 2009

Niki — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:39:31 +0000

This months typography round up covers some interesting topics: Bearded type, forums, Pixels and Ems and free typefaces out in the wild. Enjoy!

Mustache Typography

A series of posters designed for the University of Brighton 2009 Degree Shows. The theme emphasizes the fact that the University is 150 years old on this year with a Victorian tongue-in-cheek look at University life. Very interesting use of typography with a fake beard… :)

Typophile

Looking to learn the ins and outs of type design? Hand around the pros! Check out Typophile – an active community of type designers. Check our the forums, wiki and blogs.

Exljbris

I’m sure we have all seen and used Exljbris’s fonts:
Delicious, Fontin, Fontin Sans, Tallys, Fertigo Pro , Diavlo, Anivers, Museo and Museo Sans. But have you seen how others are using them? Check out this flickr group of Exljbris fonts in use.

Typographic Posters Directory

Looking for typographic poster inspiration? Check out this massive directory of posters submitted by designers.

Suprb

Suprb has some interesting experimental and custom type work.

PX to EM Conversion

PX to EM helps you convert your text sizes based on a body font size.

Birra Stout

Darden Studio is giving away Birra Stout! This font is bold and chunky and has lots of quirky character.

Sessions

Another free font for you guys! This font was made with the online type tool fontstruct.
Via ILT

Moo

Another free super bold blocky font available for free download. I’ll admit that there are alot of these fonts out there, but you can’t argue with free!
Via I’m Just Creative

F#$% Comic Sans!

Niki — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:34:34 +0000

I love the demo text for this font – HVD Comic Serif. Download the font and many others for free!

55 Free and Beautiful WordPress Themes

Travis — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:57:20 +0000

OpenSourceHunter has put together a great list of 55 Free and Beautiful WordPress Themes. Thanks to Mark Dijkstra for the link.

While searching on the web for some inspiration for a new project i came a cross a couple of beautiful free WordPress themes and I thought why not compose a list of best free WordPress themes that i can find on the web and share them here on OpenSourceHunter.

40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures

Travis — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:16:40 +0000

If you’re looking to add an ornate wallpaper look to your next site, you’ll definitely want to check out Web Design Ledgers post on 40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures for Ornate Backgrounds.

Banner Snack Giveaway at The Design Cubicle

Travis — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:56:23 +0000

The Design Cubicle is giving away 3 Banner Snack 1 Year Premium licenses. All you need to do to enter is subscribe to their RSS feed and post a comment on why you would like to win.

BannerSnack is an online banner generator that allows you to easily create animated banner ads and cool flash animations without Flash programming.

Social Bird Icon Set

Niki — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:41:36 +0000

Inspired magazine has commissioned 20 illustrators to start their creative engines and illustrate 20 different twitter birds. I love the variety in the different styles of illustration! Go check out the blog post or grab the whole batch here (zip)

Marmelade – Free WordPress Theme

Travis — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:01:06 +0000

Designer Sachin D. Brojmohun is giving away a French WordPress theme called “Marmelade“.

Don’t worry, there’s also an English version in the works :)

15 Luminous Folder Icons

Travis — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:57:24 +0000

Artist Kate England from Marmalade Moon is giving away a set of Luminous Folder Icons.

This collection of computer icons is the first volume in a new series of Luminous Folder Icons and comes in shades of blue, from turquoise to violet and ink. Bringing the beach to your desktop with salty breezes, blue lagoons and the feeling of sand between your toes.